Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 20:05:56 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Wood <wood@elec.uq.edu.au> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stuck installing PAO on Acernote Light Message-ID: <199709041005.UAA00927@axon.elec.uq.edu.au>
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re: AcerNote Light - attempt to use with PAO Thankyou all for the quick and useful replies. I have had another go at it, but haven't got it working. Replying to Mike: > Are you in a position to add/enable extra debugging in the pcic support code? If you mean writing code - no I'm not up to it, unfortunately. As for enabling more debugging - I don't know how to. I had a look through /usr/src/sys/pccard/pcic.c and found a verbose boot message for CardBus systems. My kernel doesn't produce it, so it probably isn't a CardBus system. I was pretty sure of this already since Windows '95 (which I have on another partition) identifies it as a "Cirrus Logic PCIC compatible PCMCIA controller". I guess this answers your other question. Replying to Nate: I was quite surprised to see you suggest Linux, but that would probably work almost as well for me. I have tried RedHat 4.2 & Slackware disks (including a specific PCMCIA disk) and they didn't work immediately, but they recognised both cards, beeped & tried to load specific drivers, and might work with a full installation and some care. I expect that's what I'll have to do. Replying to Greg: I had already seen a number of your messages after searching the archives, but since you had a 3Com 3C589C (and I don't), they didn't inspire much hope in me. I tried the newest 3.0-SNAP boot disk and was initially amazed to see my cards CIS data read by both ze0 and zp0. kernel reports: ze: pcmcia slot 0: NetComm Ltd~CardModem336~ ~ ~ ze: pcmcia slot 1: SMC~EtherEZ Ethernet 8020~V1.00~~ ze0 not found at 0x300 Same messages for zp0. After a while I realised that ze0 & zp0 are not compatible with PAO, and since they did not find the cards sufficiently well by themselves 3.0 without PAO won't work either. This may prove something about the availability of the CIS data on this machine though ? If anyone knows how to force pccardd to use a particular card configuration, regardless of what CIS data it reads, please let me know. thanks, Ian Wood. wood@elec.uq.edu.au
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